I used to be able to paste the URL straight from the YouTube app into a post and it would embed the video in the post but it's not working recently. Has something changed or maybe I'm doing something wrong now? Was trying to post this video on another forum…

Works for me. As a software engineer I chalk this up to user error.

What am I missing? Does posting from mobile as opposed the desktop version make a difference?

Updated the OP with a full URL. Same result. I feel so dumb…

Just remove the ?si and everything after.

Annoying extra step now. Probably requires a new fix by TA.

Posted to tech support.

C@LAg said:

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Scotts Tot said:

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Updated the OP with a full URL. Same result. I feel so dumb…

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This is the url from youtube.

i added the space in the word "youtube" so it would not actually embed

https://www.you tube.com/watch?v=f18uXhrh_0E

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So the URL I copied from YouTube was the same as yours, but with an "&" and many more characters on the end. When I deleted those later characters it worked. See the updated OP with all the attempts. I have noticed other posters having this issue. I'm not sure why yours didn't have the extra characters and mine did.

Is it a mobile/desktop thing, like the mobile version is appended with all the extra characters?

Scotts Tot said:

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C@LAg said:

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Scotts Tot said:

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Updated the OP with a full URL. Same result. I feel so dumb…

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This is the url from youtube.

i added the space in the word "youtube" so it would not actually embed

https://www.you tube.com/watch?v=f18uXhrh_0E

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So the URL I copied from YouTube was the same as yours, but with an "&" and many more characters on the end. When I deleted those later characters it worked. See the updated OP with all the attempts. I have noticed other posters having this issue. I'm not sure why yours didn't have the extra characters and mine did.

Is it a mobile/desktop thing, like the mobile version is appended with all the extra characters?

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The extra letters are extra metadata. Sometimes it's the channel name, I'm not what "si" is for, sometimes it's "ref" and shows a referred link, as in where you clicked it from. If you clicked a youtu.be link sometimes it'll show "feature=youtu.be". It basically lets youtube know how you came to be watching the video. Stuff like that

In the URI, the ? means the locator is over, now I'm going to give you some parameter values, and they're separated by an &

Your URL, with some spaces added.
https://youtub e. com /watch ? v=f18uXhrh_0E & pp=ygUPYmVhdG8gYmVldGhvdmVu

The URI is /watch, and your parameters are v=f18uXhrh_0E&pp=ygUPYmVhdG8gYmVldGhvdmVu

Here are the two parameters one of your first links is sending in:

v=f18uXhrh_0E
pp=ygUPYmVhdG8gYmVldGhvdmVu

I have no idea what "pp" is.